Neural Networks for Vision, Speech and Natural Language

by R. Linggard (Editor), D.J. Myers (Editor), C. Nightingale (Editor)

Overview

This book is a collection of papers by British Telecom researchers and their BT funded academic collaborators in the BT Connex project. This project concerns the application of neural networks to image processing, speech technology and natural language processing.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780412430008
Publisher:	Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
Publication date:	02/15/1992
Series:	BT Telecommunications Series , #1
Pages:	442
Product dimensions:	6.43(w) x 9.55(h) x 1.14(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

Introduction: neural networks for vision, speech and natural language.- Introduction: neural networks for vision, speech and natural language.- 1 Vision.- Neural networks for vision: an introduction.- 1 Image feature location in multi-resolution images using a hierarchy of multilayer perceptrons.- 2 Training multilayer perceptrons for facial feature location: a case study.- 3 The detection of eyes in facial images using radial basis functions.- 4 A neural network feature detector using a multi-resolution pyramid.- 5 Training and testing of neural net window operators on spatiotemporal image sequences.- 6 Image classification using Gabor representations with a neural net.- 2 Speech.- Neural networks for speech processing: an introduction.- 7 Spoken alphabet recognition using multilayer perceptrons.- 8 Speaker independent vowel recognition.- 9 Dissection of perceptron structures in speech and speaker recognition.- 10 Segmental sub-word unit classification using a multilayer perceptron.- 3 Natural Language.- Connectionist natural language processing: an introduction.- 11 A single layer higher order neural net and its applications to context free grammar recognition.- 12 Functional compositionality and soft preference rules.- 13 Applications of multilayer perceptrons in text-to-speech synthesis systems.- 4 Implementation.- Hardware implementation of neural networks: an introduction.- 14 Finite wordlength, integer arithmetic multilayer perceptron modelling for hardware realization.- 15 A VSLI architecture for implementing neural networks with on-chip backpropagation learning.- 16 An opto-electronic neural network processor.- 5 Architectures.- Architectures: an introduction.- 17 A dynamic topology net.- 18 The shastic search network.- 19 Node sequence networks.- 20 Some dynamical properties of neural networks.

Editorial Reviews

‘... admirably clearly written, and well structured throughout...The book succeeds very well in its aims: it does improve on the weaknesses of comparisons between approaches in the literature; it implicitly sets out how industrially oriented research is best carried out; and it presents some interesting, sometimes fascinating new results and approaches.'
Network 3
‘This volume collects the more successful case studies from a very large research project at BT Laboratories that set out to investigate the applicability of neural computing to speech, vision and the natural language problems in this application context...of interest to researchers with specialist knowledge of these subjects or, especially, to those with an interest in the application of multi-layer perceptions to practical problems.'
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